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Can we get some laws to force these companies to start subsidizing the consumer grids they're pummeling? The electric bills are getting out of hand.
They would build their own power lines / grid if they could.
This is throwing more cards on the house of cards. Nvidia is “investing” in OpenAI so OpenAI can buy GPUs from NVidia. Textbook “round tripping.” I generally like what’s been happening with AI but man this is gonna crash hard when reality sets in. We’re reaching the scary stage of a bubble where folks are forced to throw more and more cash on the fire to keep it going with no clear path to ever get that cash back. If…
I do not think the leveraging is going to end there. I suspect this will be used to justify/secure power generation investments, possibly even nuclear. Likely via one or more of the OpenAI/Altman adjacent power startups.
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I do not think the leveraging is going to end there. I suspect this will be used to justify/secure power generation investments, possibly even nuclear. Likely via one or more of the OpenAI/Altman adjacent power startups.
On the bright side, if lots of power capacity is added and most of the GPUs end up idle, then there might be cheap power available for other uses.
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I do not think the leveraging is going to end there. I suspect this will be used to justify/secure power generation investments, possibly even nuclear. Likely via one or more of the OpenAI/Altman adjacent power startups.
On the bright side, if lots of power capacity is added and most of the GPUs end up idle, then there might be cheap power available for other uses.
For someone who doesn't know what a gigawat worth of Nvidia systems is, how many high-end H100 or whatever does this get you? My estimates along with some poor-grade GPT research leads me to think it could be nearly 10 million? That does seem insane.
You could think of it as "as much power as is used by NYC and Chicago combined". Which is fucking insanely wasteful.
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You could think of it as "as much power as is used by NYC and Chicago combined". Which is fucking insanely wasteful.
I dunno. Google is pretty useful. It uses >15 TWh per year. Theoretically, AI could be more useful than that. Theoretically, in the future, it could be the same amount of useful (or much more) with substantially less power usage. It could be a short-term crunch to pull-forward (slightly) AI advancements. Additionally, I'm extremely skeptical they'll actually turn on this many chips using that much energy globally in…
For scale: The 1960's era US Navy submarine I served on had a 78MW reactor, so 10GW is 128 nuclear submarines